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DORCHESTER, JUNE 6 
1908 





SOUVENIR PROGRAM 

Celebration 

DORCHESTER 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

OF THE 

Two Hundred and Seventy-eighth 

Anniversary of the Settlement of 

DORCHESTER 

in the year 

1630 



ON SAVIN HILL 

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908 

BAND CONCERT, 1.30 P.M. EXERCISES, 2.00 P.M. 



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DORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

OFFICERS 

President, Richard C. Humphreys. 
Vice-President, James H. Stark. 
Secretary and Treasurer, John A. Fowle. 
Auditor, Thomas F. Temple. 

DIRECTORS 

W. E. Dunham. 

James F. Wattles. 
The Dorchester HxsTORtCAL Socxetv occupies and owns the «Olb 
Blake House" built in 1648. 

The Soeietv was formed to perpetuate the memory of those who 
^Dorchester. Its motto is found on the old Town Sea,,- 
Piety, Learning, Industry. 
In the Blake Hol-se are to he seen articles connected with the early 
History of Dorchester and relics of the CrvilWar. 

Citizens of Dorchester should be members of this Society. Membership 
is One Dollar a year. The Blake House is opened free on Tuesday 
and Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m. 






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GREETING 

The Dorchester Historical Society extends to all present a 
cordial greeting to the 278th anniversary of the settlement of Good 
0l d Dorchester, to enjoy with us the contemplation of the scene 
from this noted hill. 

As we look from its eminence down the Harbor to the sandy beach 
now called Point Allerton where the One Hundred «d Forty Pas- 
sengers from the little craft named "Mary «, John" landed in Six- 
teen Hundred and Thirty, and made it such a consecrated spot. 

We see the place where their feet first touched American soil. There 
they all fell on their knees and offered up a silent prayer £ thanks 
givfng for the successful ending of their perilous voyage hen they 
assembled together and sang the old hymn beginning with the line 
"Thou, Lord, hast been our Sure Defence. 
Then we seem to see them in their boats coming across Dorchester 
Bay, and landing near the foot of this hill which they called Rock Hill. 
Here they built a Fort, and placed in it several cannon. 

If we turn to the West.we can see the place on the comer of Pleasant 
and Cottage Streets where our forefathers settled. 

,,,„ r , BIVS ;„ which to reside, there they built 
There they erected Log Cabins in wm sett iers' 

the Church, and laid out roads, soon to be bordered with the 

Historic Houses. . , 

In that sacred church building built of the logs they «- « « 

4. FIRST FREE PUBEIC ScHOOE ^^^^Z^Li 

First Town Meeting on tins continen . rhe "^ 
themselves by many acts and deeds, as shown in the Histones 
Good Old Dorchester. 



Edward Everett was born near the Blake House, and in an ora- 
tion on Dorchester, delivered in 1855, Mr. Everett said, in alluding to 
Savin Hill, — 

"Old Hill as we called it in my boyhood, more than fifty years ago 
notwithstanding the tasteful villas which adorn its base, it exhibits the 
same groupings of Cedars and the same magnificent Rocks and com- 
mands the same fine view of the Harbor which it did before a single 
house was built within its precincts. Venerable trees, which seemed big 
to me in my childhood, seem but little bigger now, though I can trace 
the storms of fifty winters on some of their well-recollected branches." 

We may turn in any direction, and "view the landscape o'er" we are 
charmed with the view, not excelled in any part of our good old 
Massachusetts . 

Critics may call our ancestors austere and illiberal in many of their 
acts, but History shows that they were sincere and right in almost all 
they did. They "builded better than they knew." 

On this our anniversary "Dorchester Day" we meet again to 
dwell on the scenes of Long Ago, to recall the memories of our an- 
cestors, to dwell upon their aims, their characters, their acts, andwitli 
pride to think of their successes. May each of us strive to emulate 
their example and keep alive their love of Freedom and Patriotism! 



DORCHESTER DAY CELEBRATION 

278th Anniversary of the 
Settlement of Dorchester 

Under the auspices of the 

Sorrtjeafrr Ifiatnrtral ^ortrtg 

JUNE 6, 1908 



MUSIC, 1.30 P.M. ADDRESSES, 2 P.M. 



EXERCISES AT SAVIN HILL 



MUSIC 

OPENING ADDRESS . . Richard C. Humphreys 

President of the Dorchester Historical Society 

SINGING by one hundred and fifty school-children, " To Thee, O 
Country" 

ADDRESS Rev. Arthur Little, D.D. 

MUSIC 

READING Miss Wilhelmina C. Heuser 

ADDRESS Harry H. Ham, Esq. 

SINGING by school-children/'Almighty Lord" 

PRESENTATION OF PRIZES to the school-children for the 
best compositions on " Old Dorchester" 

SINGING, "America" 



At 4 o'clock the regatta on Dorchester Bay will start, and can be seen from the hill 




Old Blake House, 1648 



Compliments of the 
DORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

OFFICERS 
President, RICHARD C. HUMPHREYS 
Vice-President, JAMES H. STARK 
Secretary and Treasurer, JOHN A. FOWLE 
Auditor, THOMAS F. TEMPLE 

DIRECTORS 
EDWARD A. HUEBENER 
J. L. MILLER 
A. F. DELANO 



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